Giuliano Gozi Explained

Giuliano Gozi
Office:Captain Regent of San Marino
Term Start:1 April 1923
Alongside:Filippo Mularoni
Term End:1 October 1923
Term Start2:1 October 1926
Alongside2:Ruggero Mori
Term End2:1 April 1927
Term Start3:1 April 1932
Alongside3:Pompeo Righi
Term End3:1 October 1932
Term Start4:1 April 1937
Alongside4:Settimio Belluzzi
Term End4:1 October 1937
Term Start5:1 October 1941
Alongside5:Giovanni Lonfernini
Term End5:1 April 1942
Office6:Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Term Start6:30 April 1918
Term End6:1943
Office7:Leader of the Sammarinese Fascist Party
Term Start7:10 August 1922
Term End7:16 November 1944
Predecessor7:Position established
Successor7:Party dissolved
Birth Date:7 August 1894
Birth Place:City of San Marino, Republic of San Marino
Party:Sammarinese Fascist Party
Death Place:City of San Marino, Republic of San Marino

Giuliano Gozi (7 August 1894 – 18 January 1955) was Secretary for Foreign Affairs and de facto Fascist leader of San Marino from 1918 until 1943. He also held the role of Captain-Regent of San Marino 5 times between 1923 and 1942.

Early life

Gozi obtained a bachelor's degree in law at the University of Bologna 1914–1915. When Italy entered World War I in 1915, he joined the Royal Italian Army. In November 1915 he was deployed as a member of the Alpini to the front in the Valle del Boite and on the Tofane, where he obtained the Bronze Medal of Military Valor.

In 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant. He was involved in the suppression of anti-war riots in Turin in the summer of 1917. Following the Italian loss at the Battle of Caporetto in November 1917, he returned to the front with the 6th Monte Pasubio Battalion of the Alpini and participated in the Battle of Monte Grappa against the Central Powers.

By the end of the war Gozi had received the Gold Medal of Military Valor, Silver Medal of the Italian Red Cross, the Silver Medal of the Republic of San Marino and the Allied Victory Medal.

Career

The Sammarinese Grand and General Council appointed Gozi as Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He was effectively the leader of San Marino until he left this post in 1943. On 10 August 1922 Gozi founded the Sammarinese Fascist Party, and by the time of the 1923 general election, the party had become the sole legal party.

In 1939 he signed the Convention of friendship and good neighborliness with the king of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, which remains in force to the present day.[1] On 17 September 1942, four years after the Italians had enacted the Italian racial laws of 1938, Gozi issued racial law n.33, which prohibited marriage between Sammarinese and foreigners or Jews; marriages with non-Jewish Italians were still permitted.[2] [3]

A previous Giuliano Gozi was also Captain Regent of San Marino for 9 terms between 1768 and 1796.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/treaties/it/it-sm1/trt_it_sm1.pdf Convenzione di amicizia e di buon vicinato (Roma, 1939)
  2. https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/archivio-leggi-decreti-e-regolamenti/scheda17010145.html Sammarinese law n33, 1942
  3. Book: Veenendaal. Wouter. Politics and Democracy in Microstates. 2014. Routledge. 9781317646570. 4. Political history and democratization of San Marino. 3 June 2019.